Vellora Archive vs FreeReader | Text to Speech
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vellora Archive
Organize your personal documents, articles, and audio files in a single, calm digital library. Listen offline, follow along with text, and easily revisit original sources. This app helps you manage research, study materials, and cherished content without needing an account or subscription.
- Import documents, articles, and audio
- Convert text to speech
- Offline listening
- Follow along with text
- Chapter navigation
- Retain original source
- Customizable artwork
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Start a book on your phone. Continue it on your Mac or in visionOS. It syncs across all your devices. Private and local. No subscription. No fees. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Bring in the PDFs, EPUBs, articles, links, and audio you already own. • Read, or have it read to you with voices on your device. • Listen offline and follow along with the text. • Keep highlights, quotes, notes, and bookmarks beside the source. • Pick up exactly where you left off, on any of your devices. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD • Share a link from Safari and it is on the shelf when you come back. • Listen with the screen off, with controls on the lock screen. • Reading styles: type, size, page, and theme, the way you like to read. • Playback from your wrist with the Watch companion. WHO IT IS FOR Long reads, personal audiobooks, research, study material, and the pieces you do not want to lose in a sea of tabs. No account. No store. No ads. Your library stays on your device or in your own iCloud Drive. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://unshackledpursuit.com/vellora#privacy
FreeReader | Text to Speech
Convert various document and web link formats into audiobooks using natural-sounding voices. This free application supports over 30 languages and offers unlimited use without signup. It's designed to assist users with reading difficulties like dyslexia or ADHD.
- Convert EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT, and more to audio
- Read web links aloud
- 30+ natural-sounding languages
- Unlimited free use
- No signup required
- Access Gutenberg Project books
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Turn your EPUBs, PDFs, DOCX, and TXT files into audiobooks for free. You can upload files or any web link and VoiceReader text-to-speech will turn it into an audiobook. This app is completely free and you can use it to read anything out loud. There are no limits or signup required. 30+ languages are supported with natural, human-sounding voices. Supported file types: - EPUB (.epub) - PDF (.pdf) - Plain Text (.txt) - Word (.docx) - Rich Text (.rtf, .rtfd) - HTML (.html, .htm) - Markdown (.md, .markdown) - OpenDocument Text (.odt) You can even browse free books from Gutenberg Project and indie authors to start listening to books right away. We believe that free text-to-speech should be available for everyone. This app is sponsored by FreeReader, a project dedicated to providing free TTS to everyone, especially those who have dyslexia or ADHD. Our TTS helps people focus and read more easily by reading words out loud to them while they read. Enjoy TTS in English, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian, Russian, German, Japanese, Vietnamese, Turkish, Korean, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Romanian, Greek, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, Slovak, Croatian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Latvian, Estonian Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ FreeReader Gold offers a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. After the trial ends, your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled. Payment will be charged to your Apple Account when the free trial ends. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled. To avoid being charged, cancel at least 24 hours before your free trial ends.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Vellora Archive at 5 against FreeReader | Text to Speech's 2. Vellora Archive also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2). FreeReader | Text to Speech's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Vellora Archive sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and FreeReader | Text to Speech sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Vellora Archive against 5.0 for FreeReader | Text to Speech. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively.
Vellora Archive ships an update every 3 days, FreeReader | Text to Speech every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vellora Archive | FreeReader | Text to Speech |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dylan Russell | Prism App Labs |
Customer experience
Vellora Archive
FreeReader | Text to Speech
In-app purchases
Vellora Archive
- Leave a Bookmark$1.99
- For the Price of a Book$9.99
- Help Grow the Archive$24.99
FreeReader | Text to Speech
- FreeReader Gold$4.991 Month
- FreeReader Gold Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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